The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 132
Through the branches he could see great patches of sky where the kites wheeled and circled incessantly, with shrill whistling cried.
Who acts: Nur, kites, shrill whistling · What happens: see, wheel, circle, cry · To what, where: great patches, branches
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nur, kites, shrill whistling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 3 branches | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 branches | det |
| 3 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 see | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 patches | amod |
| 8 | patches | patch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sky | case |
| 10 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wheeled | obl |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 wheeled | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kites | det |
| 13 | kites | kite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wheeled | nsubj |
| 14 | wheeled | wheel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 patches | acl:relcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 circled | cc |
| 16 | circled | circle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wheeled | conj |
| 17 | incessantly | incessantly | ADV | _ | 16 circled | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cried | punct |
| 19 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 22 cried | mark |
| 20 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 whistling | amod |
| 21 | whistling | whistling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cried | nsubj |
| 22 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 circled | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | Nur | great patches | the branches | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer patch=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | wheel | past | the kites | of sky | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent of sky=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | circle | past | the kites not said here | incessantly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | shrill whistling | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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